optimize-angular-app

Let's optimize an Angular application for production.

This repository shows how to apply a number of techniques on a technical demo application. This includes bundling, tree shaking, ahead of time compilation, lazy loading and pre-rendering with universal.

You can build the demo yourself, or check it at: http://mlaval.github.io/optimize-angular-app/

This projects was used for a presentation at angular-up in 2016: slides and video

Running scripts

• npm install to prepare your environment
• npm run build to build all versions of the application (it takes several minutes)
• npm start to serve the files at http://localhost:8080/

Step by step

The build task executes a number of independent steps which can be executed separately if needed:

• npm run clean: clean all generated files
• npm run public: generate and copy static assets
• npm run dev
• npm run bundling-app
• npm run bundling-full
• npm run treeshaking-rollup
• npm run treeshaking-webpack
• npm run aot-closure
• npm run aot-rollup
• npm run aot-systemjs
• npm run aot-webpack
• npm run laxyloading-closure
• npm run lazyloading-systemjs
• npm run lazyloading-webpack
• npm run prerender

Development

To develop the application itself, here is the workflow:

• npm run clean
• npm run public
• npm run watch: watch and transpile the application source code
• npm start to serve the files at http://localhost:8080/

To run integration tests:

• npm run build
• Build the closure-compiler cases (see above)
• npm test

To generate a performance report:

• npm run build
• Build the closure-compiler cases (see above)
• npm run perf